Capture the Rainbow (Sedikhan)

From number 1 New York Times bestselling writer Iris Johansen comes a vintage story of pleasure, danger, and romance, as humans make a connection so unforeseen and so intimate, it might probably have results for a lifetime.Gorgeous Hollywood stunt double Kendra Michaels is vying for the task of her life—a high-paying, high-risk bounce that may transparent the debt on her brother’s clinical debts. Casey Michaels was once a stuntman himself till a task went tragically incorrect. Now Kendra is ready to take a similar probability. There’s only one guy status in her method, a guy whose impossible to resist magnetism seduced her in methods she’d by no means experienced—and by no means sooner than surrendered to....

Director Joel Damon will get what he desires. And he desires Kendra. however the explosive appeal he feels on the mere sight of her is fullyyt new to him, and it hasn’t disappeared, no longer given that their one unforgettable evening together—and no longer seeing that Joel found she wasn’t the skilled starlet he’d wrong her for. Now he’s decided to increase that evening into many extra. yet he’ll need to preserve Kendra alive to do it, no matter if it ruins her profession. For he has higher plans in brain for her than she ever imagined.

The 1st novel from the brilliantly unconventional Nicola Barker is a story of playing, asthma, track and canine, set in a few of London's much less scenic destinations. probability conferences among its solid of eccentric contributors - Ruby the bookie's cashier, violently disturbed (and stressful) Vincent, Samantha the would-be cabaret singer, wilfully sickly Sylvia and Little Buttercup the never-quite-made-it greyhound - bring about the unlikeliest of undefined; and there is continuously the chance that it can all determine disastrously as characters decide on one another and check out or do not attempt to make profitable combos.

“Jio has develop into one of many most-read girls in the USA. ” –Woman’s World Born in the course of a Christmas snow fall, Jane Williams gets a unprecedented reward: the power to determine real love. Jane has emerged from an in poor health formative years a lonely, hopeless romantic while, on her twenty-ninth birthday, a mysterious greeting card arrives, specifying that Jane needs to establish the six kinds of love sooner than the entire moon following her 30th birthday, or face grave results.

4 outdated men—John, Gino, Larry, and Frank—have been warehoused at "the Manor," a long-eroded domestic for the forgotten. the boys take turns telling tales, stalling demise as they relive pivotal components in their pasts. outdoors, the cliff crumbles and a lighthouse slips towards the ocean. John, specifically, enthralls the others along with his story of Tampico, Mexico, the place he met an Indian girl named Chepa who owned a home on the fringe of a mountain desert.

Not anything in my life’s been genuine until eventually now…until Kendra. ” He drew a deep, shaky breath. “So I’d larger commence studying tips to think, hadn’t I? ” the 1st tentative rays of sun all of sudden brightened the sky, illuminating his face, and Billie stuck her breath on the torment she observed there. “God, I’ve bought to think she’s going to make it. ” “Joel,” Billie’s hand closed abruptly on his arm. “You mustn’t—” “Come on,” Joel stated all at once as he became and commenced go into reverse the line to the place the remainder of the staff waited on the backside of the cliff. “We’ve purely obtained fifteen mins to get every thing in place for the leap. ” His face used to be extra masked as he took her elbow and propelled her rapidly down the line. “The digicam staff at the helicopter is able to take off at a moment’s discover, however the positions of the crews on both sides of the canyon and on the cliff dealing with the chasm must be double-checked ahead of I supply the sign. ” His smile was once bittersweet. “I wouldn’t are looking to lose a unmarried attitude of my extraordinary dawn backdrop, might I? ” “No, that will be a shame,” Billie acknowledged absently as she part skipped to take care of with Joel’s lengthy stride. “Joel, Kendra didn’t appear frightened concerning the bounce itself, yet she pointed out whatever concerning the springs of the jeep being ready correctly. She used to be a piece grim in regards to the significance of that. What could take place if anything went improper with the springs? ” Joel’s hands on her elbow tightened to a nearly bruising strength. He regarded immediately forward, his eyes at the crowd of milling technicians a number of hundred yards alongside the line. He may see the jeep now and Kendra status beside it, listening carefully to anything pass Lowden used to be telling her. “What could take place? She’ll be going at terrific velocity and hit the opposite part with an incredible effect. If the springs carry inflexible rather than giving and cushioning her as they need to, it is going to have a similar impression as leaping from a ten-story construction. ” He paused. “It may holiday her again, not less than. ” It was once virtually time. Kendra felt a sparkling heat as one other stuntman she scarcely knew gave her a difficult hug and murmured a gruff, “Luck, Ken” in her ear. She knew it was once culture to provide this actual convenience and help ahead of a possibly harmful gag and she’d performed it again and again herself, yet nonetheless it touched her. as soon as she used to be within the driver’s seat of the jeep, she could recognize merely that negative chilly aloneness; even the buzz may be the icy thrill of threat. yet she could have the reminiscence of robust hands and hot phrases to beat back that coldness. it usually helped to grasp that, and he or she would wish the entire aid she may possibly get at the present time. Joel’s biting anger had shaken her greater than she had permit him see the previous day. She’d needed to strength herself to withstand the impulse to provide in and do whatever, be something he sought after. but how may she, while it intended giving up her satisfaction and independence for what can be a fleeting liaison? Joel sought after her now. What approximately subsequent 12 months or the yr after, notwithstanding? She wouldn’t have the ability to stand it if she wasn’t capable of educate him to like her as she enjoyed him.